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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK U. S. TO BE ‘ D R Y ’ e r AFLAME WITH 1AR L E FOR F B I TRADE S tate Capitol.—Organization plans n------ W ashington, D. C.—-Ratification last in both house and sen ate Monday went A. H. Lea was unanim ously re-elect T hursday of the federal constitutional off w ith well-lubricated precision, W. prohibition am endm ent made the ed secretary of the S tate F air board T. Vinton, of Yamhill, being elected U nited S tates the first g reat pow er to a t its annual m eeting la st week. It is Brief Resume important | take legislative action to perm anently understood the salary will continue to Przemysl Is Bombarded by president of the senate, and Seymour Rebuilding of Pre-War Business Jones, of Marion, speaker of the house be $3000 a year. Mr. Lea will accept. | stop the liquor traffic. w ithout opposition. Vinton cast a com Begun By U. S. N ebraska's vote gave the necessary Daily News Items. Ukrainian Forces. Through an agreem ent reached be plim entary vote for Senator Farrell , affirm ative three-fourths m ajority of and Jones • for Burdick. O therw ise the sta te s to m ake effective the amend- tween the Coos Bay Shipbuilding com with the exception of a few absentees jm e n t subm itted by congress in De- pany officers and th e c a rp e n te rs’ and the elections were unanimous. Con Y 0 U cem ber, 1917. It was followed by simi- jo in ers’ union, the strik e in progress tests for m inor places in both houses i lar action in the legislatures of Mis- in M arshfield since Jan u ary 7 was set were few. # ' souri and Wyoming, making 38 states tled and th e 662 w orkm en returned Except for one unexpected clerkship in all which have approved a "d ry ” to work Friday morning. Events of Noted People, G overnments Bolsheviki Converging on W arsaw fight, the caucus plans for the senate Army to Give Up Tonnage G radually America. The Mutual Drilling com pany is the organization were carried out this as Forces Abroad Diminish; Hol and Pacific N orthw est and O ther Affirm ative action by some of the W ith Army Estim ated a t 30,000; nam e of a new incorporated body, m orning w ithout interruption. Robert 10 sta te legislatures yet to act is pre Things W orth Knowing. land Bottom s to Be Released. F ate of Vilna Feared. composed of farm ers who are drilling Ruhl, of Medford, who had received dicted by prohibition advocates. 16 pledged votes for calendar clerk U nder the term s of the am endm ent, for arte sia n w ater in Swan lake, Poe gave w ay to Paul Byrris, a returned th e m anufacture, sale and im portation valley and the dairy d istric t in, e a st Men ^¡till held in the spruce produc of intoxicating liquors m ust cease one ern K lam ath county. W ashington, D. C.—Approxim ately Geneva.—Two thousand persons soldier, after Senator H uston, of Mult tion division a t Vancouver barracks year afte r ratification, b ut prohibition have been killed a t Przem ysl, Galica nomah, led a heated fight on the floor 200 cargo ships have been diverted to The first com plaint th a t soldiers re by the U krainians, according to a dis will practically all be discharged by will be a fact in every sta te much of th e senate in behalf of the lad in peace-time trade routes since the sign turning to Bend have been unable to patch to the Neue F reie Presse, of Vi the uniform. F ebruary 10. ea rlier because of the w ar m easure for ing of the arm istice. T his represents secure work, was filed S aturday with enna, a copy of which has been receiv Senator Vinton, of Yamhill, was The P resbyterian church in the Uni bidding the m anufacture and sale of al T. H. Foley, chairm an of th e Commun ed here. elected president w ithout opposition the n et resu lt of the U nited States ted S tates has provided in its 1919 coholic beverages afte r Ju n e 30 until ity Labor board, and th e question was The U krainians have been bombard He received all votes except his own shipping board’s contribution up to budget for a fund of a million dollars the dem obilization of the m ilitary im m ediately taken up w ith th e local ing Przem ysl for several days p a st by House organization was perfected date tow ard the rebuilding of th e na to Increase salaries of pastors not forces is com pleted. U nder the w ar land and by air, and conditions in the before noon. R epresentative H aines tion’s foreign trade. As rapidly as tim e m easure exportation of liquor is com m ercial club for action. considered adequately paid. town are described as terrible. was m ade tem porary chairm an; Rep the arm y can spare ships from the perm itted, b ut th e g reat stocks now A belief of Oregonians th a t w arm er The N ebraska sta te senate, by un T he gas and electric plants have resen tativ es Sheldon, Richardson, work of carrying supplies to the A m er held in bonded w arehouses will have anim ous vote, adopts a joint resolu w eather instead of the recen t cold, been destroyed and there is no ljght Dennis, Mrs. Thompson and Hughes ican expeditionary forces, they will to be disposed of before the federal tion m em oralizing th e U nited States unusual in the W illam ette valley, in the town. W ater and Yood also tem porary com m ittee on organization be placed w here m ost needed. am endm ent becomes effective. senate to subm it th e question of n a Between December 10 and Ja n u ary and R epresentatives Richards, Griggs Discussion as to w hether the new would be the best possible preventive are lacking. tional equal suffrage to the states for and Gordon on credentials. Represen 10 the. w ar departm ent released 148 am endm ent becomes a p art of th e con of the “flu” appears to be justified in London.—An unconfirm ed w ireless approval. stitution, now th a t 36 sta te s have ra ti the rapid im provem ent of conditions message from Kiev says th a t th e LUk tatives Bean, ’ Burdick and Kubli es ships, totaling nearly 900,000 dead in Albany since freezing w eather van S ecretary B aker has subm itted to fied it, or w hether it becomes a p a rt of corted Chief Ju stice McBride to give w eight tons, which had been devoted rainian d irecto rate has fallen. The exclusively to the arm y supply serv C hairm an D ent o f 'th e house m ilitary th e basic law only when each sta te has ished. the oath. power in the city now is in the hajnds ice. O thers released prior to Decem com m ittee a bill to authorize purchase certified its action to the secretary of The post of A storia dredge N atom a of th e Bdlsheviki. of land in F rance for a m ilitary cem e state, led to a search for precedent, D eath to Bolshevism and the I. W ber 10 and several new ly com pleted is engaged in dredging th e Sklpanon tery, to be designated "T he American which showed th a t the only two Odessa.—G eneral Denekine, the i nti W. in all th eir forms in Oregon is the ships, intended originally for arm y river and a t the present rate will |o o n Field of Honor." am endm ents ratified in the la st half have the channel com pleted up to the Bolshevik leader in Southern Rui sia purpose of two m easures which reach work, w ere released. About 50 of th e 260 ships were un O rders directing Major-General cen tu ry providing for income taxes and tu rning basin. It is planned to make has inflicted a sharp defeat on the ed the desks in both the house and der 4000 tons, which w ere released the the senate a t the opening day of the Bolsheviki on th e R iver Kuma, In the d irect election of senators, w ere con Leonard Wood, now com manding this basin large enough to accommo first of the year from requisition. O th One thousand prisoners Oregon legislature. Camp Funston, Kansas, to proceed to sidered effective im m ediately the date all vessels which will be able to Caucasus. ers are being operated by th e shipping They came from Mr. Kubli in the were captured by his forces. 36th sta te had taken affirm ative Chicago and take command of the cen get up the river. board, w hile several are n eutral ships house and Mr. Dimick in the senate. A fter two days of fig h tin g Gen ral tral departm ent, were issued by the action. the ch arters of which have expired. R epresentative Kubli succeeded in Denekine captured A lexandria Gr sh S enator Sheppard, author of the pro D eportation of all alien slackers W ar departm ent. The n eu tral vessels will be ohartered getting his anti-Bolshevik and I. W, evska, the Bolsheviki losing a nun ber hibition am endm ent, held th a t national who cancelled th eir citizenship papers P rincess C harlotte, sister of Grand prohibition becomes a p erm anent fact private firm s. W. bill as No. 1 on the house calendar, of light field guns and m achine gui 3. rath e r than be inducted into the army Duchess Marie, of Luxem burg, has Twenty-one Japanese ships are be and if it passes the two houses it will Ja n u ary 16, 1920. Only 14 of the under, the d raft law is to be dem anded been chosen as the la tte r’s successor W arsaw .—A pogrom is reportei to contain am ple dynam ite to blow those ing turned back to th e ir owners. sta te s have certified th eir action to in a joint resolution being prepared by the cham ber of deputies, which have taken place a t Breditschew , op- forms of terrorism and syndicalism These ships have been used on the th e S tate departm ent. by Senator W alter B. Dimick, of m et im m ediately afte r th e abdication Atlantic. One of them has been s ta r t New problem s of governm ent are Clackam as county, and which he in ularly known as the Jew ish capita of from the sta te forever. of the grand duchess was announced. ed through the Panam a Canal on its the U kraine, the place deriving its itle raised by prospective stoppage of the troduced in the sen ate early this week. because of its all-Jew ish populaf on. Application of business methods retu rn voyage, while th e others will Bob G riffith, veteran A laska “mush- m anufacture and sale of intoxicating P ortland school children interested The trouble is reported to have oc 'ur elim ination of non-essentials and post follow a t once. It will cost the United e r,” w ith a heavily arm ed guard and liquor as hundreds of millions of dol two dog team s, arrived in Seward, lars derived from internal revenue will in the goat club project m et for an red as a resu lt of an attem p t by p :as- ponem ent of unnecessary improve States governm ent several million dol m ents until a more auspicious time lars to send the ships back to Japan A laska, T hursday with $400,000 worth have to be obtained from other educational rally in the Lincoln high ants to disarm m ilitia which the J of gold dust from the Iditarod for ship sources. Laws for enforcem ent of the school auditorium Saturday m orning were organizing for th eir protection will enable Oregon to be fluauced under the ra th e r severe ch a rter term s, m ent to S eattle on the steam er Ala am endm ent also will have to be passed a t 10 o'clock. The goat clubs a re to in all centers, w’hich they anticipated w ithout indebtedness. A survey of agreed tc by the shipping board. It was learned Monday th a t the next give train in g in a practical industry would be necessary w hen the Moscow the budget which has been prepared meda. by congress. for th e consideration of the legislature lot of ships released by the shipping Only a minimum of unem ploym ent is for the city child; education in busi governm ent breaks up. Crews of the German m ine sweep shows a total estim ate to be provided board probably will be the 87 Dutch ers. according to the Cologne Volks expected to" result, as the cum ulative ness methods, and to help the children W arsaw .—Bolshevist forces are pon- from the public trea su ry of $9,167,- ships seized by the United S tates gov Zeitung, are refusing to serve unless severity of successive restrictiv e m eas of devastated France. verging on W arsaw over three lines of 795.81. As estim ated, visible revenues ernm ent, after Holland had failed to they recelvo increased pay and new ures adopted since the w ar began al F avorable reports w ere authorized railroad. The num ber of enemy is un am ount to $7,870,580.97, it appears th at agree to term s for th eir use. schedules calling for sums as high as ready has caused m any distillers and by the senate lands com m ittee through known. N egotiations are pending by which $1,297,214.84 will be needed. 100 m arks daily, exclusive of the in brew ers to seek o th er uses for th eir S enator Chm aberlain recently on the It is estim ated, however, th a t| the E very essential in th e budget can some of the Norwegian ships will re plants. surance guarantee. Coos Bay wagon road land g ran t bill, More than half th e territo ry of the the bill extending tim e for th e com Bolshevists have 30,000 men. It is be provided with $200,000 rem aining, main under ch arter to th e shipping D espite the ending of the war, there United S tates already is dry through pletion of the Tum alo irrigation proj feared th a t W arsaw is in danger of although d rastic economies are neces board under more favorable term s will be no letup in the m ovem ent to than during the war. Some of the N or sary. sta te action or local option elections. ect, and th e bill perm itting residents m eeting the fate of Vilna. have women take more in te re st in A pparently there is a shortage of wegian ships already have been re W estern and southern sta te s took the of Jo rd an valley, M alheur county, to farm ing, according to speakers before Vladivostok.—The evacuation of $1,297,214.84. By the exercise of the leased. lead in prohibition. In the w est only tran sp o rt fuel wood from Idaho. the W omen’s Land Army of America, Ufa, the cen ter of anti-Bplshevik activ pruning knife, it is possible to trim Owners of A merican ships which California and W yoming stilt license which concluded its first annual con ity w est of the U rals, by R ussian and were requisitioned by the shipping from the budget $1,322,520 w ithout th e sale of intoxicants, and in the The Oregon dairy and food com mis vention in Philadelphia Thursday. Czecho-Slovak forces, was ham pered dam age to the running m achinery of board are clam oring f i r th e ir release. south only Louisiana. sioner’s office has been indorsed by by the treachery of railw ay employes, the state. T he legislature will proba All influence is being brought to bear A violent peasan t uprising in the th e 27th annual convention of the Ore who allowed the railroad engines to bly • devise reconstruction schem es in behalf of p articular owners. T he interior of R ussia against th e imposi gon D airym en’s association and a reso freeze w hen the city was surrounded which m ust be heavily financed, in shipping board, however, takes the tion of excessive taxes by the Bol- lution was sent to the legislature ask by 11,000 Bolsheviki. T here was much which event the ten tativ e budget position th a t it cannot show any fa shevikl and again st the “com m ittee ing th a t the office be retained as a fighting in the stree ts of U fa Decern item s will have to suffer. voritism and will release ships only for fighting poverty,” which exercise sep arate departm ent of sta te govern ber 30, and it w as attended by heavy by classes. The first class of requisi It is estim ated $500,000 can be lop a tyrannical dictatorship in th e vil ment and th a t the com m issioner be ped off in the industrial accident com tioned ships released w ere those be lages, is reported in a P etrograd dis W ashington, D. C.—The house mili given a sufficient sum to carry on his losses on both sides. m ission by abolishing th e one-seventh tween 2500 and 4000 deadw eight tons, tary com m ittee practically reached an work. patch. which th e sta te contributes to the while th e next class, it is expected, Double Taxes on Luxuries. N ine persons are known to have agreem ent F riday in conference with The 27th annual m eeting of the Ore W ashington, D. C.—Tax rate s of lux com pensation fund. T he estim ate in will be those between 4000 and 6000. S ecretary B aker and G eneral March, been killed and about 50 injured by gon S tate D airym en's association op uries, am usem ent adm issions and club the budget is for $680,000. The com the explosion of a huge tank of mo chief of staff, to postpone the W ar de ened in H illsboro last W ednesday with dues w ere agreed upon T uesday by m ission itself recom m ends th a t the p artm ent reorganization bill until the lasses on the Boston w aterfront off a large attendance, which included th e senate and house conferees on the legislature m ake an appropriation for next session of congress and w ith it a Commercial street, n ear Keany rep resen tativ es from practically all w ar revenue bill. Practically all of the adm inistration expenses of $296,876.16 Square, W ednesday. E ight bodies large p art of the prospective debate dairy sections of the state. D elegates sen ate’s rates on luxuries and sem i instead of th e estim ated $680,000, wore removed from the w reckage and over the fu tu re m ilitary policy of the were welcomed by W illiam Schul- luxuries were accepted by th e house which the sta te 's one-seventh for two one man died a t th e relief hospital. country. merich, president of the County Farm conferees. U nder the agreem ent th e years will am ount to; the sta te adding A suggestion by Chairm an D ent th at W ashington, D. C.—Thom as W a tt Most of those injured suffered only bureau, and the response was by P res am usem ent adm ission tax will be one to the money which comes from em a legislative rid er on the arm y appro Gregory, attorney-general of the U nit from bruises. ident Frank* Lynn, of Perrydale. cent on each 10 cen ts paid up to 30 ployers and em ployes for com pensa ed S tates since 1914, has resigned be priation bill continuing th e existing Congress has been asked by Secre w ar organization of th e departm ent cause of "pecuniary responsibilities,” A full survey of the dam age done cents and two cents on each dim e paid tion. ta ry D aniels to appropriate $270,400,- and the reg u lar arm y for an o th er year, the Inm an Mines company, on Sixes in excess of 30 cents. and will retu rn to the practice of law. T he house ra te of two cents on each A good get-away in legislative prog P resident W ilson has agreed to his 000 to m eet a deficit in the navy’s be substituted for th e reorganization river, in Coos county, November 14, m easure, m et w ith the approval of M,r. when lightning struck several portions 10 cen ts paid for adm ission to roof ress w as m ade the first day with the retirem en t next March 4. (The sa l c- peases for th e curren t fiscal year. gardens, cab arets and sim ilar estab introduction of four bills in the senate ary of the attorney-general is $12,000 Senator Lodge, of M assachusetts, Baker and ap p aren tly with th a t of a of the com pany's structures, has been lishm ents was adopted, as w as the and 11 in th e house. a year.) will deliver "tlie euiogy a t the Joint I m ajority of the com m ittee m em bers set a t $20,000, instead of $10,000, house ra te of 25 per cent on th e ate r Tho proposal grew out of a confer- Mr. Gregory's le tte r of resignation, which at first was believed to have Congressional memorial services for j Com pulsory em ploym ent of retu rn dated Ja n u ary 9, and the president's Theodore Roosevelt to be held in the ' enc« whlch S ecretary B aker and the been a liberal estim ate. The loss to boxes. It is estim ated th a t about chief of staff explained to th e com the com pany came a t a tim e following $75,Q00,000 in revenue will be secured ed soldiers and sailors by th e state, reply, cabled from P aris th e next day, house cham ber on February 9. | m ittee the reorganization m easure several years of expensive construc annually from am usem ent adm issions county, city and oth er municipal cor were made public Sunday n ig ht a t the Two aviators of C arruthers F ie ld .: fram p,j i,y the departm ent, providing tion and successful defense of several under the a g re em e n t porations w ithin the sta te is provided W hite House. T he attorney-general’s Forth W orth, Tex., were killed Mon for a regular arm y of 500,00(7 men to lawsuits. The house rate of 20 per cent on club in a bill introduced in th e senate by le tte r disclosed th a t he had long con day m orning when their plane drop be raised by v o luntary enlistm ent on dues, double the tax under existing law Senator F arrell, of Multnomah. sidered retirin g from office and had An order will be Issued at once by and estim ated to raise about $9,000,000, ped into a tall spin and fell 5000 feet. a flat three-year basis. T he bill, which is the first of a flood discussed th e m a tte r w ith th e presi the Coos county court, prohibiting also was adopted by the conferees. They are L ieutenant John E. Oarbut, of reconstruction m easures to be dent before Mr. W ilson w ent abroad. stock running a t large any place on of SÌterldan. Wyo., and Mechanic R. L. In disposing of the excise or semi- ground through th e legislative mil! Mexican Town is Seized. Mr. Gregory's successor h as not yet th e county’s improved highways. Es luxury taxes, the conferees agreed to this year, provides th a t soldiers and been appointed, and th ere has been no Quinn, of Pittsburg, Pa. Fabcns, Tex.—Guadeloupe, opposite tim ates of dam age have been made the sen ate assessm en t of. 10 per cent sailors who have been honorably dis official intim ation as to who he will American C hristm as mall for Swe-1 here, was captured and held over night and subm itted to the court which in of the am ount paid in excess of fixed charged m ust be given preference in be. den. estim ated to be th e m ost valuable j F riday night by a band of arm ed and In speculation th e nam es of dicate stock clim bing on the new standard prices by p urchasers of semi- em ploym ent by state, county, city or Frank L. Polk, counsellor of th e sta te of th e year, has not yet arrived in mounted Mexicans, reported to be a graded w ork In various sections of luxuries, such as carpets, picture other m unicipal corporations. It ap departm ent, and acting secretary Stockholm. It is believed th a t the part of General Felipe A ngeles’ com the county have torn down the grades fram es, traveling bags, pocketbooks, plies to veterans of the Civil W ar, while Mr. L ansing is in Europe, and mail was lost on tho m issing British mand tn thp norlh and created dam age it would necessi um brellas, fans, h ats, shoes, stockings Spanish W ar and th e w ar with Ger- steam er Gitano, which left Hull, E ng Senator Jam es H am ilton Lewis, of Fiscal guards composed the only tate the expenditure of $1000 to repair. and o th er articles. uy. Illinois, w ere mentioned. land, on December 20 for Sweden. arm ed force In the garrison a t the D rastic m easures w ere taken at The suprem e court holds th a t the tim e. A house-to house search was Pro- Hun Talk Cotta Job. Revocation of some of th e powers Revolution In Bremen. m ade for am m unition, arm s and horses Bend Monday by members of the City Reed "bone dry” am endm ent prohibits delegated to the Oregon Public Serv Eugene. Or.—Pro-German rem arks and all w ere seized. S atu rd ay the H ealth com m ittee and H ealth Officer Basel.—A Socialist republic has In terstate transportation Into dry and Indications of pro-German sym ice Commission is sought in a bill in been proclaimed a t Bremen, according band rode eastw ard tow ard Ojlnaga. sta te s of Intoxicating liquor for bev Dr. J. C. Vandevert. to prevent a repe pathies coat A. M. Dickey, postal clerk, troduced in the sen ate by Senator to advices from Munich. T he com erage purposes even If Intended ror tition of the Spanish influenza epi h it Job, according to E. L. Campbell. India Favors Autonomy Huston, of Multnomah, which provides m unists in Brem en have taken the personal use. * London, via M ontreal.—A t the N a demic of a few weeks ago. A stric t Eugene postm aster, w ho announced th a t th e public service commission places of the m ajority Socialists on T he California senate and assembly tionalist Congress, being held a t Delhi, q u arantine of all homes where the the dism issal of Dickey from his posi the Soldiers' and W orkm en's Council, •valved constitutional im m unity from India, say reports, a resolution was disease has appeared, an order to en- tion in th e local office. The rem oval shall not have authority to increase and have sent a m essage to E b ert provisions of the influenza m ask ordi adopted favoring full provincial au to -¡fo rce the w earing of m asks a t all was ordered by F irst A ssistant P o st rates charged by public service corpor dem anding th a t they resign. They are nomy and against special electo rates i public gatherings, and the daily fuml- m aster-G eneral Kroons. Dickey cam e ations, w hen such rates were invoked reported also to have sent a telegram n a l i , . - bj adoption .,f motions instruct lng th eir sergeants-at arm s to perm it i for Europeans. T he congress passed gation of th e ate rs and poolrooms are to Eugene about a year ago, having through co n tracts betw een the corpor to the Russian Bolsheviki expressing no one entering the cham bers un- formal resolutions of loyalty to the I am ong the chief preventive steps ta- been tran sferred from a postal posi ations and cities prior to Septem ber the hope th a t the revolutions in Rus tion In the P anam a canal zone. 18 , 19 13 . m asked. crown. __________ ______ ¡* !ken sia and G erm any would be victorious. Most COMPILED FOR 2000 PERSONS KILLED JAP CRAFT RETURNED REORGANIZATION OF ARMY IS POSTPONED A T T O R N E Y -G E N E R A L GREGORY RESIGNS
